The Golden Age

Biquge www.xbiquge.cc, the fastest update of the latest chapters of Sun Moon Fenghua!This village is not small, and Qin Xiao estimates that there are 30 or 40 households in the village before it is close.

This is a relatively large village in Xiling.

There was a pond at the entrance of the village. When I walked across the pond with a horse, I saw a few people at the entrance of the village. One saw Qin Xiao and others coming over, and immediately reminded his companions that the others did not speak immediately. They looked at Qin Xiao and looked strange. .

Qin Xiao was young and handsome, so he naturally stepped forward and said, "Excuse me."

A few people didn't speak, but just looked at Qin Xiao. Qin Xiao saw that the other party was not enthusiastic and a little embarrassed, but he also knew that a few strangers suddenly came to the village. The other party did not know the details, so naturally he would not be too enthusiastic.

"A companion fell ill while we were on the road." After all, Qin Xiao had been in the Jiazi Supervisor, smiling and cleverly said: "It's getting late too. I want to spend the night in your place and boil some hot water. Take a break, and please make it easy for some of you."

Some people saw Qin Xiao and several people with knives on their bodies, looked at each other, and one asked, "Who are you?"

"We are darts." Qin Xiao had already thought about what to do.

"The village does not accept outsiders. If you walk 30 miles east, you will be the county seat." One person said: "There is nothing to eat in the village, so it's not easy to keep people."

Qin Xiao could also see that although these people were wearing cotton-padded jackets, they were very shabby, with patches sewn on them, and all of them had yellow and thin faces. It seemed that they hadn't had enough to eat all the year round. They wondered if the people in Guan were so poor.

He didn't talk nonsense, took a bank note and handed it over, still smiling: "We don't live in vain, this is twenty taels of silver, please accept it."

Twenty taels of silver is certainly not a small amount.

The villagers' eyes lit up like a hungry wolf seeing the prey, and Qin Xiao suddenly felt something wrong in his heart.

Although the love of money is commonplace, these few people have not concealed their desire for silver, and there is really no concealment at all.

One person stretched out his hand to take it, and said, "I am the security chief of the village. There is an empty house over there, no one is occupied. You can live in, but you will leave early tomorrow morning." Reached out his hand towards a dilapidated house not far away. Pointing, before Qin Xiao could speak, the man said again: "Remember, don't go out at night. There are dozens of strong men in the village, so I'm not afraid of you."

Qin Xiao was amused, and thought to himself that if these people were really evil, even if there were dozens of strong men, he wouldn't be afraid.

After the villagers dispersed, Qin Xiao greeted a few people to the dilapidated house, tied the horse, and entered the house. A musty smell penetrated into his nose. The house was impoverished and there was no furniture. Fortunately, there were two rooms on the left and right. There are also beds.

Qin Xiao lights up the lamp, but hears Yu Wen Chengchao suddenly said: "Do you smell blood?"

"Smell of blood?" All of them were surprised. Han Yunong looked around and suddenly walked to the wall and squatted down. Qin Xiao went over with the oil lamp, but he had already seen that there were blood stains on the wall. It's dry, and it's obviously treated by someone, leaving not much blood.

"There are also here." Yuwen Chengchao whispered.

Several people looked over and saw Yu Wen Chengchao picking up a stone from the door, and there was blood behind the door panel.

"There is blood on this stone." Yuwen Chengchao took it and handed it to Han Yunong. After Han Yunong took it, he saw that the stone was not big, but there were many edges and corners. Two edges were stained with blood and dried. .

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He stepped forward to smell it, and wiped it with a finger, his face solemn: "The time is not long, at most it is only half a month."

"There have been fights in this, and even ... murder." Yuwen Chengchao said softly.

Du Hongsheng was weak. Although Qin Xiao thought the room was weird, he helped Du Hongsheng into the room first. The bedding on the bed was broken and dirty, and even gave off a strange smell. No new bedding was found for a while. Can say: "My lord, you are wronged, you rest first, and I will go to other villagers to see if there are any beddings available."

Du Hongsheng weakly said, "No, I have worked hard for you." Really unsupported, he lay down on the bed.

Qin Xiao went to the back to find firewood, set up a fire in the house, and said to Du Hongsheng: "My lord, I'm going to boil some hot water." When he got outside, he saw Han Yunong and Yuwen Chengchao still checking in the house and asked in a low voice. : "Captain, is this weird?"

"Very weird." Han Yunong often handles cases in Xiling. At this time, he couldn't help but survey the scene, and Yu Wen Chengchao held an oil lamp to illuminate him.

"This house has been processed, but there are still remnants left. It can be concluded that there have been murders in this house." Han Yunong is very sure: "I checked the path of blood stains from the room to the door. If the judgment is correct At the time of the incident, the fight should have started in the room. Someone wanted to escape, but he was seriously injured in the house. Someone was chasing after him. It is still unclear whether the person rushed out of the house, but he wanted to escape. People are under attack all the time."

"Did this happen recently?"

"Not more than half a month." Han Yunong frowned: "If a murder case occurs, it should have been reported to the officer. The scene of the crime cannot be dealt with immediately after the incident. Unless an official has come and the prisoner is taken away, the villagers will It was processed here, but it was not cleaned up."

Yuwen Chengchao whispered: "Captain, the villagers in this village are a bit weird. When we came into the village, did you find that several villagers were hiding behind the windows and peeking at us? Their eyes... .. I can't describe it easily, it's just weird and eerie."

"I also found out." Han Yunong said: "But I thought it was outsiders entering the village, they are wary."

"Will there be outsiders who lived here before, and then the villagers murdered the outsiders for money?" Qin Xiao remembered the greedy look of the villagers when they saw the silver bills, and now that they think about it, they all feel weird.

Han Yunong shook his head and said: "There is no evidence, we can't wear hats randomly. But this village is indeed a bit weird. When we entered the village, no one came out in the house, but adults, there should always be children playing outside in the village, you guys. Can you see a child?"

Both of them shook their heads.

"Let's be more mindful, and be careful." Han Yunong said: "Rotate on duty at night, and we will leave at dawn."

The actual people also know that even if the villagers here have evil intentions, with the skill of three people, it is more than enough to deal with these villagers.

Qin Xiao arrived in the kitchen, but fortunately there was a yellow wooden bucket, but there was no water in the tank, so he greeted Han Yunong and went out to fetch water from the pond.

The sky was already dark, and Qin Xiao walked past several houses with a wooden barrel, deliberately slowing down, and looking at both sides from the corner of his eyes, he found that behind the window, there were eyes staring at him, in this deserted village. Being stared at from behind the window, Qin Xiao felt his hair stand up, making him feel uncomfortable.

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He fetched water from the pond. When he came back, with those eyes still staring at himself, Qin Xiao speeded up his pace and returned to the house, relieved.

"What's the matter?" Yu Wencheng couldn't help asking when Qin Xiao was a little nervous.

Qin Xiao smiled bitterly: "You are right, they are hiding behind the window and looking at me. I have goose bumps on my body, and my heart is beating very hard now."

Yuwen Chengchao smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, we have knives in our hands, I don't believe they dare to attack us."

When Qin Xiao arrived in the kitchen, he washed the pot first, then burned half a bucket of hot water, and found two dilapidated rice bowls. After washing them, he carried the wooden bucket to the room and fed Du Hongsheng a half bowl of hot water.

Han Yunong took the dry food. Zhang Rang prepared enough for several people. It was enough to eat for half a month. Qin Xiao first fed Du Hongsheng a little bit. Then he sat down with Han Yunong and ate the dry food with hot water.

"How about Master Du?" Yuwen Chengchao asked.

Qin Xiao said: "It should be due to overwork, a good rest is not a big problem."

"That's good." Yuwen Chengchao said, "Master Du is a civil official. This continuous bumps is really not easy."

Han Yunong sighed: "If it weren't for the two of you, Master Du and I would have lost our lives." There was a trace of shame: "Fan Ziqi has trained so many cavalry in Xiling secretly, but we don't know anything, it is true. inability."

"Lieutenant Du does not need to blame himself." Yuwen Chengchao smiled bitterly: "I am from the Yuwen family. Even our Yuwen family doesn't know anything about it."

"The Fan family is in Fanjun, and the Kunlun Guardsmen are his people. They have been secretly communicating with the Wutuo people." Qin Xiao said: "Their swords are very sharp. I heard they were made of fine iron ore from Wutuo. There are many mines in Fan County, and they secretly build armored weapons, with the Fan family covering them, how can we know?"

Yuwen Chengchao said: "But I don't know how many dead wing cavalry there are, and now it is estimated that it may have reached a thousand."

"At least that's the number. On New Year's Eve, there were three hundred cavalry in Turtle City, and there were only a lot more in Fenggan Mansion City." Qin Xiao said, "That night, Heiyang City also had at least two hundred people. There are still a thousand dead-wing cavalry. Without this capital, Li Tuo would not dare to act rashly." Then he smiled bitterly: "When I and Zhong Lang Jiang arrived in Fan County, Fan Ziqi gave money and food. At that time, I thought he really took refuge in the court. The granary in Heiyang City stored a large amount of food. I really thought it was for the general. Now I want to come, it is their own rations used to supply the rebels."

Han Yunong said: "Although the Fan family is not weak in financial resources, they have to build weapons and equipment, and they need to store food. The number of cavalry trained secretly will not be too many. With their family, they can't support a large number of cavalry."

"But now that Xiling is controlled by them, the Zhen family's wealth will of course be taken away by them, and all the wealth donated by the Yuwen family will also fall into their hands." Qin Xiao frowned: "In addition, the Xiling family is afraid of the Fan family. With the knives in their hands, they will inevitably donate money. With these silver in their hands, they will quickly recruit soldiers and buy horses, and even buy large amounts of weapons and equipment from Wu Tuo."

Yuwen Chengchao clenched his fists and looked cold and stern. At this moment, he suddenly heard a stern cry from outside, like a ghost howling, the three of them were all horrified and stood up at the same time.